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The National Holocaust Centre and Museum

Name: The National Holocaust Centre and Museum
Address: Acre Edge Road, Laxton, Newark, NG220PA, GB
Telephone: +441623836627
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The UK's first permanent museum, memorial and education site dedicated to the Holocaust.
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02/07/2024

Join our team at The National Holocaust Centre and Museum

We have an exciting opportunity to join our curatorial team as a Project Curator. This role will manage, preserve and improve accessibility to our significant digital collection of Holocaust survivor testimony. It is a critical role at the museum and was created as a part of our exciting site redevelopment opportunity; supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund

Click below for the full job description and please tag anyone you know who may be interested!

https://www.holocaust.org.uk/job-vacancies

21/06/2024

The theme for Refugee week is 'Our home' and according to Malala Yousafzai “To me, a home is where you feel loved, safe, and cherished.” Much alike to a quote from one of our wonderful Holocaust survivors, Dorothy Fleming, who tells us about her first impression of the Smith family here at The National Holocaust Centre and Museum...

"I think that they were quite exceptional, genuine people who really felt that this is something that more people should know about and set about doing something about it. In a very creative and original way. (They) required support. And we didn’t have anything much in the way of money, but we had our stories. And we were happy to give those, and we were always made to feel welcome and quite soon we genuinely felt part of that family."

If you would like to become a member of the family, book a visit today and ask about how you can support. We look forward to welcoming you to the museum soon.

https://www.holocaust.org.uk/FAQs/book-your-visit

20/06/2024

For many of our Survivor family, talking about their experiences of The Holocaust was unthinkable, feeling forced to stay silent, until they discovered The National Holocaust Centre and Museum. Affectionately known as 'Beth Shalom' or 'House of Peace', many Holocaust Survivors refer to this special place as home, which is fitting for Refugee Week and the theme 'Our home'. Today, we ask Arek Hersh what role the Museum and the Smith family played in helping him to share his experiences:

“A lot. Because to me it meant everything. Every time I went, used to go to the Holocaust Museum I felt at home, and I felt good, and I felt I can talk my part. And it was a very good place for me to go...”

19/06/2024

During Refugee week, we celebrate The Journey, our Primary education focused exhibition; based on what life was like for a young Jewish-German boy, Leo, living in 1930s Berlin, who later became a child refugee on the Kindertransport. Holocaust Survivor, Manfred Dessau, tells us what this unique exhibition, built in the original farmhouse of the Smith family, means to him:

“I can only say that The Journey, as it is now, was enormously emotional for me, because when I went through that room with all the bookshelves and things on the floor, it just reminded me of my home, because my dad was a commercial traveller in the early 30s. And all those things were in our home as well. I thought The Journey was very memorable. And the people at Beth Shalom who were taking us around were very skilled and knowledgeable about explaining it all.”

To discover the impact The National Holocaust Centre and Museum can have on a child's cultural understanding and learning experience, book an educator led programme now by emailing [email protected]

18/06/2024

As we celebrate Refugee week, 17-23 June, 'Our Home' is always open for visitors and supporters. We hear from our Survivor family on their affection for The National Holocaust Centre and Museum and the inspiring Smith family that started our journey; first up, we hear from Steven Frank.

"I've been extremely honoured and fortunate to have met this extraordinary family. Christians who've managed to give those Jews who probably have suspicions about anything that's Christian. But they have taken the Smiths on board, they have supported, and they've produced this place. Which is quite extraordinary."

13/06/2024

Job Opportunity!

We are looking for a Schools Marketing Coordinator to join us and help us increase the number of young people who benefit from our programmes on site, in school and online.

Full job description and details of how to apply can be found on our website:

https://www.holocaust.org.uk/job-vacancies

06/06/2024

Job Opportunity!

We are looking for a Collections Officer to care for, catalogue, and support creative uses of our large and growing collection of artefacts, photographs and documents.

Full job description and details of how to apply can be found on our website:

https://www.holocaust.org.uk/job-vacancies

31/05/2024

📣 Calling all teachers across the UK! 📣

Do you ever find yourself thinking: How do I explain the Holocaust to my students when they are reading online conspiracy theories?

How can I improve the way my students think critically about historical sources?

How do I appropriately link their learning to the present day and questions about Israel and Palestine?

If you want to overcome these teaching challenges, book now for a full day of training at The National Holocaust Centre and Museum on 15th or 16th July, 09:00-15:30 👇

What’s included?
✅ Led sessions on the curriculum, anti-Jewish racism, and Jewish life before and after the Holocaust.
✅ Live demonstrations of our digital equipment and a led tour by a Senior Educator.
✅ Meet a Holocaust survivor and access our treasure trove of artefacts.

Tickets are £100 per teacher, drinks and lunch provided. Book now 👉 https://www.holocaust.org.uk/universitiesandteachers

25/05/2024

We are looking for a Catering Assistant to join our team on Sundays.

Our coffeeshop is important to us. It offers people an opportunity to relax and reflect in a welcoming atmosphere and enjoy some refreshments. We offer a range of delicious sweet treats, hot drinks, and food including toasted teacakes, sandwiches, soup, and a changing specials menu.

Please find a full job description on our website and do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions at all.

https://www.holocaust.org.uk/job-vacancies

Please also share if you may know someone who would be interested!

23/05/2024

FULLY BOOKED!!

Please note, this event is now fully booked and there will NOT be space for additional tickets to be sold on the day. Please keep an eye on our page for updates on the next special event.

Join us this Bank Holiday Monday 27th May, 13:00-15:00, for Survivor testimony from Malka Levine, author of 'A Mother's Courage' - a remarkable story of bravery, kindness and hope.

https://www.holocaust.org.uk/Event/malka-levine-survivor-testimony-monday-27th-may

01/05/2024

We are so excited for the start of our multi-million-pound redevelopment project, made possible with the generous giving of supporters and donors including Arts Council England and The Pears Foundation.

The project, which will see a complete upgrade to our award-winning and education-focused exhibition, ‘The Journey’, and will also include new visitor facilities, greater storage for the Museum’s collection and improved environmental works across the site.

Further news and updates can be found on our website https://www.holocaust.org.uk/redevelopment-project

If you’d like to support this project and the vital work that The National Holocaust Centre & Museum delivers, you can make a donation now by heading to https://www.holocaust.org.uk/donate/support-the-national-holocaust-centre-museum/5/credit-card

24/04/2024

Activities for families to enjoy and learn together are available at the National Holocaust Centre and Museum this May half term.

Join us on Tuesday the 28th of May or Friday the 31st of May for your children to become mini museum tour guides. Boost your child’s knowledge and confidence as they spend time learning from our qualified educators about life for Jewish individuals in 1930’s Germany (before the outbreak of war), preparing to take up the opportunity of touring their families around our primary age friendly exhibition: The Journey.

Your children (target age 9-13 year olds) are invited to embark on an educational tour of The Journey, led by our fully qualified, enhanced DBS checked museum educators. As they tour, they will learn about what makes a good museum tour guide and collect information to impart as they prepare to show you around the exhibition later in the day.

While your child is touring the exhibition with our educators between 11.30am and 1.30pm, you have the perfect opportunity for some quiet time in our beautiful memorial gardens, or time to peruse the museum exhibition suitable for visitors aged 12+.

At 1.30pm when you re-join your child, grab some lunch! Either bring your own or treat yourself in our coffeeshop. Then in the afternoon, your child will show you around The Journey exhibition as expert museum tour guides!

While you’re with us, create something extraordinary in craft activities throughout the day. Our crafts will based on the themes that you will encounter throughout your visit to the museum: identity, refuge, diversity and remembering.

23/04/2024

Passover is a major 8-day Jewish festival that commemorates the liberation of the Jewish people from slavery in ancient Egypt. Passover (in Hebrew, ‘Pesach’) begins this evening at sundown with a ritual dinner known as the Seder meal. It is believed by many that Christ’s Last Supper was a Seder meal. This is why Passover and Easter tend to fall at approximately the same time each year.

Everyone round the dinner table shares in reading aloud the story of regaining freedom as written in the ‘Haggadah’ and singing a variety of songs and blessings together. Young children are often given a special simplified version of the Haggadah containing pictures of the key scenes of the Passover story. They tend to like the pictures about the Ten Plagues that G-d casts to punish Pharaoh and the Egyptians and to help set the Jews free!

We were delighted to welcome Gary Fisher to the Museum earlier this year to share his family’s story of their own Haggadah which survived Theresienstadt concentration camp and its subsequent restoration by Chris Shaw from the BBC TV show ‘The Repair Shop’. (The episode can be watched on BBC iPlayer.)

Passover is a time for gratitude and reflection on the nature of freedom. It has been built into the Jewish tradition for 3,000 years and is something which the horrors of the Holocaust remind us to appreciate.

Wishing all our friends, supporters, partners and of course our Survivor Family who celebrate Passover a happy and meaningful one.

19/04/2024

No finer tributes to our late Curator Aneesa Riffat than from the Holocaust survivors to whom she was so devoted. (She is pictured here with survivor Steven Frank).

Read their eulogies to this brave, passionate Ambassador of Celebrating Difference:
https://www.holocaust.org.uk/News/aneesa-riffat-rip

12/04/2024

We're hiring a Senior Educator!

We seek to appoint an enthusiastic, experienced Senior Educator to expand our work with schools and develop innovative new products and learning experiences for students. The successful candidate will teach across the age range, from Year 5 to Key Stage 5.

Learn more here: https://www.holocaust.org.uk/job-vacancies

09/04/2024

Sunday 21st April – 1pm - Kindness

Holocaust Theatre and Education through Drama.

Join us for a special performance of Kindness, a largely verbatim play based on the testimony of one of our much-loved Holocaust survivors, Susan Pollack OBE.

Susan was only 13 when she was sent to the notorious Auschwitz-Birkenau in the summer of 1944. Interwoven are a number of complementary narratives, including that of Mala Zimetbaum and Edek Galinski whose stunning love story and spiritual resistance is painted across a backdrop of one of the darkest periods in human history.

Kindness has been described as “beautiful and empowering” and “compelling and emotive”. It promises that Susan’s legacy of the Holocaust stays with you for a very long time.

Book your tickets here... https://www.holocaust.org.uk/Event/kindness

04/04/2024

Special Event - Monday 15th April

79th Anniversary of the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen

Join us as we remember the 79th anniversary of the liberation of Bergen-Belsen by British soldiers in April 1945. Our Curator led talk will guide you through our artefacts of ordinary objects, our beloved survivor experiences and the British troops who helped them to freedom.

Talks: 11am-12noon & 1.00pm-2.00pm
Note: not suitable for Primary aged children.

Book here!
https://www.holocaust.org.uk/Event/79th-anniversary-of-the-liberation-of-bergen-belsen

04/04/2024

Thank you to everyone who joined us for a fantastic Family Learning Day this week!

We're holding another one next Tuesday 9th April so if you missed out see our website for more details...

https://www.holocaust.org.uk/Event/family-days-at-the-national-holocaust-museum2

28/03/2024

What’s On In April?
Join us in April for a series of special events.

Tuesday 2nd & Tuesday 9th April – Family Learning
Family Learning Activities for families to enjoy and learn together are available at the National Holocaust Centre and Museum this Easter Holiday!

Monday 15th April - Bergen-Belsen Liberation Talk
Join us to remember the 79th anniversary of the liberation of Bergen-Belsen by British soldiers in April 1945

Sunday 21st April – Kindness
Holocaust Theatre and Education through Drama. Join us for a special performance of Kindness, a largely verbatim play based on the testimony of one of our much-loved Holocaust survivors, Susan Pollack OBE.

Learn more and book tickets here: https://www.holocaust.org.uk/whats-on

26/03/2024

Learn more about our Family Days this Easter holidays with our Mini Tour Guide Experience and craft activities!

https://www.holocaust.org.uk/whats-on

08/03/2024

Birmingham, we’re on our way! Our travelling exhibition ‘I Say British, You Say Jewish’ will be on the University of Birmingham campus at Green Heart, opposite the main library 11th-14th March from 12-6pm daily. Discover Jewish elements of popular British culture in food, music and football - and also expose anti-Jewish prejudices.

07/03/2024

We currently have 1 vacancy: Director of Collections Engagement The National Holocaust Museum is looking for an outstanding Director of Collections Engagement to take the lead in identifying and engaging new audiences, using the formidable content assets in our Collections which will be further enha...

07/03/2024

We currently have the following job opportunities open:

Collections Officer to care for, catalogue and support creative uses of large and growing collection of artefacts, photographs and documents.

Curatorial Researcher to conduct research on our large and growing collections of artefacts, photographs and documents, from the era of the Holocaust and the ongoing history of anti-Jewish racism.

Finance Manager to run our Operating Finance functions day to day. Ensuring that our diverse range of revenue streams are eﬀectively managed and accounted for.

Freelance Educators with primary and secondary school experience, as key members of the Education team, to help delivery our on-site learning programme.

https://www.holocaust.org.uk/job-vacancies

05/03/2024

Don't forget, we're in Nottingham City Centre until Friday this week! Visit our exhibition which offers opportunities to discover some Jewish elements of popular British culture in food, music and football - but also exposes anti-Jewish prejudices.

01/03/2024

SPECIAL EVENT Sunday 17th March

Dr David Fligg talks about his incredible book which chronicles the extraordinary and moving story about the young Czech pianist and composer Gideon Klein. Standing on the threshold of a promising career, Klein, his friends and family were deported to Theresienstadt prison camp and ghetto. His compositions remarkably survived the Holocaust. Join us to learn this fascinating narrative of how one young man continued to make music in the face of evil.

Dr David Fligg is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Royal Northern College of Music.

Exclusively at this event local composer and pianist, Chris Miggells will be performing a unique composition which incorporates Klein's original music into a new piece of music. Chris enjoyed recent success with this sell out concert at 'The Iron Cathedral' within Clipstone Headstocks.

Join us for this exciting event where we combine the past and present, history and the arts, all with our local coal mining heritage running through its seam.

www.holocaust.org.uk/whats-on

£5 per person additional event ticket cost

SPECIAL OFFER:
2 for 1 on standard admission (not including event tickets) if you bring a valid purchase as part of National Lottery Open Week to say for allowing to support so many amazing causes!

See website for more details.

29/02/2024

Time to explore the myths and realities of being both British and Jewish. Come and visit our travelling exhibition-in-a-trailer March 3rd-8th in Nottingham City Centre (Smithy Row) NG1 2BY! Our educators will be on hand to have a chat and answer any questions. 'I Say British, You Say Jewish' touring exhibition It's in Nottingham LeftLion Magazine Nottingham

14/02/2024

JOIN THE TEAM

The National Holocaust Centre and Museum is looking for a Director of Collections Engagement.

In this role you will take the lead in identifying and engaging new audiences, using the formidable content assets in our Collections which will be further enhanced by our site redevelopment. You will join our Senior Management Team and lead our Curatorial team.

You will help build a loyal following for an extraordinary Holocaust museum like no other.

Closing date Thursday 29 February
More details here: https://www.holocaust.org.uk/job-vacancies

09/02/2024

Sunday 18th February - The Jewish Prayer Book

We are delighted to welcome Gary Fisher and Chris Shaw as they talk about a treasured family artefact that survived the Holocaust and was lovingly restored on the the BBC TV Show 'The Repair Shop'.

Gary will be sharing with us the testimony of his Grandparents, Gisela and Emanuel who were sent to Theresienstadt concentration camp. Chris is an expert on the show and will be discussing the delicate restoration of such an important artefact.

https://www.holocaust.org.uk/Event/the-jewish-prayer-book

08/02/2024

HALF TERM - Monday 12th February

If you’re looking for something different this half-term then join us for our first Family Learning Day.

Drop your children with our Education team who will take them into The Journey exhibition and teach them how to become museum guides!

The Journey is an exhibition specifically designed for primary school aged children, it is largely text free and very interactive. The group will follow Leo’s story through 1930’s Berlin from his family home through to his parent’s decision to send him on the Kindertransport.

After the session you will experience a guided tour of The Journey yourselves from the best tour guides available… your children!

Sessions are suitable for ages 9-13yrs and sessions available at 11am and 1pm. Our Educators are all professional ex-teachers and fully DBS checked.

https://www.holocaust.org.uk/whats-on

Limited spaces available. £5 per child in addition to standard admission.

28/01/2024

A huge thank you to everyone who visited this weekend. We closed our Holocaust Memorial Day activities with the amazing Arek and Jean Hersh. Your support is very much appreciated.

Address

Acre Edge Road, Laxton
Newark
NG220PA

Opening Hours

Monday	10am - 4:30pm
Tuesday	10am - 4:30pm
Wednesday	10am - 4:30pm
Thursday	10am - 4:30pm
Friday	10am - 4:30pm
Sunday	10am - 4:30pm

Telephone

+441623836627

Website

https://www.holocaust.org.uk/

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JOIN THE TEAM The National Holocaust Centre and Museum is looking for a Director of Collections Engagement. In this role you will take the lead in identifying and engaging new audiences, using the formidable content assets in our Collections which will be further enhanced by our site redevelopment. You will join our Senior Management Team and lead our Curatorial team. You will help build a loyal following for an extraordinary Holocaust museum like no other. Closing date Thursday 29 February More details here: https://www.holocaust.org.uk/job-vacancies

Come and work with us! The National Holocaust Museum is looking for an outstanding Development Manager to support the growth of trust and foundation fundraising. This role will be pivotal to the success of the museum and will have an initial focus on new business and pipeline development. Working closely with the Development Director they will develop relationships with smaller family trusts to make crucial annual gifts through to applying to funders capable of making more significant multi-year grants. Learn more here... https://www.holocaust.org.uk/job-vacancies

We're hiring! Superb #storyteller wanted. This is a game-changing career opportunity to be our new Chief Curator. Full job description here: https://www.holocaust.org.uk/job-vacancies